Improvement in mechanisms for drying sized fabrics



w. H. PALMER, Jr.

J Mechanism fur Drying Sized Fabrics.

I 163 804 Patented May 25,1875.

THE GRAPHIC CO.PHOT0-LITH.39&4 PARK PLACE,N.Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT F. PALMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANISMS FOR DRYING SIZED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,801, dated May 25,1875; application filed April 3, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. PALMER,

Jr., of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Drying Sizedand Dressed Fabrics; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification, and inwhich Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a drying apparatus in partconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe-same, and Fig. 3 a vertical transverse section on the line a: x.

This invention relates to the manufacture of sized or dressed fabrics ofvarious kinds, having what is known as an elastic finish; and consistsin a combination, with the drying-cylinders, over or round which thesized or dressed fabric is pressed after it comes from the tentering andstraightening apparatus, of one or more longitudinally reciprocating ortraversing cylinders, arranged either above, below, or between thedrying-cylinders, or certain of them, and round which traversingcylinders the fabric is passed for the purpose of breaking or preventingadhesion of the size or dressing material of the warp and weft at theirplaces of intersection. Such improvement will be found particularlyapplicable to the manufacture of mosquito-nettin g andother gauzelikefabrics, but is not restricted to any particular kinds of fabrics.

In the drawing, A B C D represent certain of the drying-cylinders of adrying apparatus, such as used in the manufacture of sized or dressedfabrics of various kinds, and round which the cloth or fabric, as itcomes from the tentering and straightening apparatus, is

passed. E E are supplementary cylinders, of which there may be anynumber-that is, one, two, or more-arranged either above, below, orbetween the ordinary drying-cylinders, so that the fabric, in its travelthrough the drying apparatus, passes over or round said cylinders E E.These supplementary cylinders E E have a longitudinally reciprocating ortraversing motion in a transverse direction relatively to the passage ofthe fabric through the apparatusas, for instance, by means of arevolving crank shaft, G, made to vibrate swinging arms H H, which,together with corresponding arms I I on the opposite side of themachine, carry the cylinders E E. Said cylinders may, if desired, alsobe drying-cylinthe fabric, as the latter, in its passage through theapparatus, travels round said cylinders.

I claim The combination, in a machine for drying sized or dressedfabrics, of rotary drying-cylinders and one or more rotary cylindershaving a longitudinal reciprocating motion, the whole being constructedto operate substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

W. H. PALMER, JR. Witnesses:

E. W. N. STARR, FRANK F. STARR.

